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...last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting dozens of residents voiced their opposition to a zoning change that would allow a more than 100-foot tall biotechnology lab building to be constructed within 50 feet of residential properties in East Cambridge...
Tonio Buonassisi, an MIT professor who runs an interdisciplinary photovoltaic lab, said that he had recently spent $18,000 to install solar panels on his home, which he said would be rendered useless by shadows if the proposed zoning change is passed and the is building constructed...
...more practical release. For many scientists who continued to receive public funds while pursuing embryonic-stem-cell work with private money, the federal restrictions meant they had to segregate their two universes completely: not a single penny of government money could be used for embryonic-stem-cell work. Lab personnel had to log each minute they spent studying embryonic cells and keep all equipment, from computers to pens and pipettes, separate. Often, different lab facilities had to be built to avoid any potential crossover of funds. Melton's embryonic-stem-cell research was relegated...
...That administrative burden has now been lifted. For Fisher, the reversal is especially gratifying since the restrictive Bush policy quashed her experiments in 2002. After a storm hammered San Francisco that winter, the university campus lost power; if not for the backup generators that pumped emergency electricity to its labs, countless cell cultures might have been lost. Fisher's embryonic-stem-cell lab, however, was off the campus grid, housed in a temporary facility built with private funds, which did not have a backup system. It took several days for power to be restored to that site, during which time...
...body, if they are transplanted into patients - as insulin-producing cells for people with diabetes, for instance - they must be tissue-matched to the patient to eliminate the risk of rejection. So for now, any practical benefit of having more embryonic stem cells exists only in the lab, not in the clinic...